Benefits of Using Managed Sanitation Supplies for Your Business

A healthy facility means a consistent supply of products that keep the workplace clean throughout the day. Sanitation supplies like soap, sanitizers, disinfectants, paper towels, restroom products, mops and wipers enable facilities to maintain a clean and safe workspace. Managed supplies can help businesses keep products well-organized, stocked, and ready while minimizing facility management hassles.

1: Better Workplace Hygiene

A well-stocked facility maintains workplace hygiene by giving employees and guests what they need to stay clean and sanitized throughout the day. Sufficient hand-care products and cleaning/sanitizing products keep the workplace germ-free, as well as provide resources for cleaning hard-to-reach places throughout the facility. A cleaning program based on the needs of your facility ensures appropriate products for your business’s hygiene needs. Hand-care and other products enable employees to maintain hygiene throughout the day.

Keep Hand-Care Products Available

Hand soap and sanitizer are necessary resources that employees and guests will use throughout the day.

Important:

Empty dispensers can present a facility management crisis, and running-out of soap is something that every facility strives to avoid.

Monitoring inventory is essential to ensure that there is always a clean and proper supply of hand-care products at the workplace.

Support Surface Cleaning

High-touch surfaces like light switches, door handles, and handrails need more frequent cleaning depending on the needs of the facility. Proper cleaning and disinfecting products are essential to any cleaning program within the workplace. Surface cleaners and disinfectants should be selected based on what surfaces need to be cleaned and how often they require attention. A managed program guarantees consistent supply to help cleaning crews finish their daily cleaning tasks and keep the facility tidy.

Examples of high-touch surfaces:

• light switches

• door handles

• handrails

Maintain Restroom Hygiene

Restroom hygiene is an important focus for any facility. Bathrooms and restrooms require a consistent supply of paper towels, soap, toilet tissue, air freshening products and more to keep the facilities clean and functional. Maintaining these products helps ensure a well-functioning and pleasant restroom experience at any business. UniFirst offers managed restroom and washroom supplies to help maintain restroom hygiene.

Support Shared Areas

Break rooms, entrances, conference rooms, and other shared spaces require frequent cleaning and disinfecting. These areas are high-touch and can accumulate dirt and grime that require wiping or disinfecting products to return them to acceptable condition. Shared areas are often overlooked, but they should play a role in an overall cleaning program. Having all supplies available can help facilities ensure that no area is left uncleaned.

Workplace Area

Cleaning Consideration

Break rooms

Frequent cleaning and disinfecting

Entrances

High-touch areas

Conference rooms

Frequent cleaning and disinfecting

Shared spaces

Wiping or disinfecting products

2: Fewer Supply Shortages

A sudden shortage of cleaning products can halt a facility’s cleaning program. Having a managed program means that a business can plan ahead and know about supply needs before they become an immediate concern. This can help facilities maintain a steady stream of products and keep facility management worries to a minimum.

Monitor Inventory Levels

Inventory monitoring is key to keeping an eye on what a business needs to maintain a constantly clean facility. By keeping an eye on frequently-used products, a business can stay ahead of potential supply shortages. Monitoring inventory also helps a business keep a good eye on what products they actually need. Inventory management is an essential part of a managed facility service, according to UniFirst.

Plan Replenishment

Replenishment planning is key to keeping a steady supply of products that keep your facility clean. A business can use inventory monitoring to keep track of which products are frequently used. This helps a facility plan restocking around the needs of their cleaning program. Replenishment helps facilities know what they need without the hassle of constantly ordering more hand soap or disinfectants.

Avoid Emergency Purchases

Facilities will inevitably find themselves in a situation where they need to purchase cleaning products in the middle of a cleaning shift. Businesses can minimize these emergency purchases by planning ahead. By monitoring inventory and having a consistent stream of products, a business can limit emergency purchases and streamline the facility management process.

Improve Supply Visibility

A managed program means that facilities can plan ahead and know what supplies they need. This helps facilities communicate with cleaning teams and manage their sanitation programs with enough notice to make adjustments. It can also help a business know what supplies they actually need in order to maintain a clean facility.

Supply management focus:

• Monitor inventory levels

• Plan replenishment

• Avoid emergency purchases

• Improve supply visibility

Tip:

By monitoring inventory and having a consistent stream of products, a business can limit emergency purchases and streamline the facility management process.

3: More Efficient Facility Maintenance

Sanitation supplies only help if they are easily accessible and properly organized in a way that facilitates the cleaning process. An organized program can maximize the efficiency of your cleaning team by providing them with the right product for the job. Businesses can choose products based on the needs of the cleaning team and provide them with the tools they need to do their job, rather than searching for the right product or organizing supply stations.

Choose the Right Products

Products vary depending on the needs of the cleaning team and the workplace as a whole. Microfiber products are suitable for some tasks, while mops and wipers perform better in others. Disinfecting products need to match the product being cleaned. Selecting the right products can help maintain facility hygiene without wasting supplies or using the wrong products in the wrong places.

Product

Use

Microfiber products

Suitable for some tasks

Mops

Perform better in some tasks

Wipers

Perform better in some tasks

Disinfecting products

Need to match the product being cleaned

Organize Cleaning Stations

Cleaning products need to be kept at accessible locations so that a cleaning team can do their jobs with as little waste as possible. Properly organizing a cleaning station can mean the difference between fast and slow, easy and difficult, messy and organized facility cleaning. Keep frequently-used products in accessible locations and make it easy for cleaning teams to identify product locations and restocking needs.

Simplify Cleaning Routines

Having the right tools makes it easy to streamline facility cleaning routines. Teams can do their jobs more efficiently when the know that they have access to the right product. A managed program ensures that cleaning teams have the right tools for the job, so they don’t have to worry about organizing supply stations or searching for the products they need.

Simplify Cleaning Tasks

Maintaining an organized cleaning program helps facilities minimize wasted supplies while maximizing cleaning efficiency throughout the workplace. Having the right tool for the job makes it easy for cleaning teams to get the job done. A managed program can help teams perform their jobs with as little waste as possible.

Support Cleaning Teams

Having access to cleaning tools and products makes it easy for cleaning teams to do their jobs. Maintaining a steady supply of tools and products for a cleaning team helps support them in doing their jobs. Cleaning teams require mops, microfiber products, wipers, and other supplies to keep a facility clean. UniFirst offers mops, microfiber products, wipers, and more through UniFirst’s facility-service products.

Cleaning team supplies include:

• mops

• microfiber products

• wipers

• other supplies

4: Better Restroom Management

Restrooms in the workplace are an important part of any employee or guest experience. Maintaining a clean and healthy restroom environment requires special products and a dedicated program to keep them in check. A business can simplify the process by consolidating and managing restroom products at once to minimize facility management hassles.

Maintain Soap Supplies

Hand soap is a vital part of any business that requires a clean facility. Businesses must maintain consistent hand soap supplies to keep workplaces germ-free throughout the day. Dispensers help to keep germs contained and away from the hands of employees and guests. Soap and sanitizer products are available with dispenser service from UniFirst.

Keep Paper Products Stocked

Paper towels and toilet tissue are essential for any business that has access to a restroom. They are used frequently and must be kept in stock to keep the facility clean and functioning properly. Monitoring levels of these paper products can help a business keep adequate inventory of these essential facility items. Dispenser service can help a business manage hand towel and toilet paper inventory. UniFirst provides dispenser service for paper towel and toilet tissue.

Manage Air Fresheners

Air fresheners enhance the experience of a restroom visit, especially when used correctly. Businesses can choose the right air freshener dispenser service and products to keep their facility smelling clean and refreshing. Frequent air freshener service helps to avoid the disaster of an empty air freshener canister. Air fresheners are available as part of a restroom program from UniFirst.

Maintain a Welcoming Environment

A clean and well-maintained restroom is an important part of any business, where employees and guests alike can expect facilities to be clean and well-kept. Employees and guests can quickly take notice of a dirty restroom or one that lacks essential supplies like soap or paper towels. A managed program means that a facility can keep its restrooms clean and ready at all times.

Restroom Supply Checklist

Restroom Need

Supply

Hand hygiene

Hand soap

Hand hygiene

Sanitizer

Drying

Paper towels

Bathroom use

Toilet tissue

Environment

Air fresheners

Dispensing

Dispensers

5: Easier Facility Management

Maintaining a fully-stocked facility can be a hassle. From ordering products to inventory monitoring and storage, it can be time-consuming and wasteful. A managed facility service simplifies the process by providing consolidated ordering, inventory monitoring, and storage. This can help a facility dedicate more time and resources to the needs of their facility.

Reduce Ordering Work

Facility managers may have to place separate orders for products like cleaning chemicals, paper products, soap, and other products. A managed program consolidates these products under one provider, streamlining the ordering process and reducing overall purchasing needs. This can help reduce the number of ordering relationships a business has to manage.

Consolidate Product Categories

Businesses may need a variety of products to maintain a clean and healthy facility. UniFirst offers facility-services products to help manage cleaning and disinfecting products, paper towels, restroom products, soaps and sanitizers, mops, microfiber products and wipers. Consolidating inventory needs can help a business reduce inventory management needs. A managed program can help facilities reduce the hassle of purchasing and inventory management.

Improve Service Coordination

A managed program streamlines the relationship a business has with its facility-management needs. A business can communicate its needs and concerns with a single provider rather than multiple, independent suppliers. This can help facilities reduce the hassle of managing multiple facility-service relationships and increase local responsiveness.

Focus on Core Operations

Facility managers have many responsibilities, including managing inventory and purchasing, aside from maintaining a clean facility. A managed program can help reduce the burden of product purchasing and inventory management by outsourcing it to a single, dedicated provider. This can help a business reduce overall facility management time and dedicate more resources to core operations.

Managed Sanitation Supplies at a Glance

Benefit

How It Helps

Better Workplace Hygiene

Provides employees and guests with what they need to stay clean and sanitized

Fewer Supply Shortages

Helps businesses plan ahead and maintain a steady stream of products

More Efficient Facility Maintenance

Provides the right products and tools for cleaning teams

Better Restroom Management

Helps maintain essential restroom products

Easier Facility Management

Helps simplify ordering, inventory monitoring, and storage

Conclusion

Managed sanitation supplies can provide a number of benefits to a business, from better product availability to reduced facility management needs. These benefits come together most when a business selects the right products for their facility and keeps them stocked and organized at all times. Businesses should consider their facility needs before selecting a sanitation program.

UniFirst’s managed facility services can help a business manage their essential sanitation and facility products. Contact UniFirst to learn more about a managed facility supplies program.

FAQsWhat are the main benefits of managed sanitation supplies?

They can help improve product availability, reduce ordering work, simplify inventory management, and support consistent hygiene.

Can managed services include restroom products?

Yes. Restroom programs can include soap, sanitizers, paper towels, toilet tissue, air fresheners, dispensers, and related supplies.

Can a business reduce supply shortages?

Inventory management and scheduled replenishment can help reduce the likelihood of essential supplies running out.

Are sanitation supplies useful outside restrooms?

Yes. Cleaning and disinfecting products, mops, microfiber products, and wipers can support many workplace areas.

Does UniFirst offer managed facility services?

Yes. UniFirst provides managed facility services that include multiple sanitation, cleaning, restroom, and hygiene supply categories.